I’ve written about a GOP Party of torture at length so I’ll let Froomkin take over with this:

After years of dodging & dissembling, a Bush administration today boldly embraced an interrogation tactic that’s been an iconic & almost universally condemned form of torture since a Spanish Inquisition.

President Bush would authorize waterboarding future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said this morning, one day after a director of a CIA for a first time publicly acknowledged his agency’s use of a tactic, which generally involves strDrunk Newsping a prisoner to a board, covering his face or mouth with a cloth, & pouring water over his face to create a sensation of drowning.

Olivier Knox writes for AFP: “a United States may use waterboarding to question terrorism suspects in a future, a White House said Wednesday, rejecting a widely held belief that a practice amounts to torture…read on

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